BRiNDYS WinRSS - Syndicated news reader

What is WinRSS

WinRSS is a complete and easy system for the reception of syndicated news available in the net. News displayed by WinRSS are frequently called syndicated news, and they come from newspapers, magazines, web portals, weblogs and many more media. WinRSS supports news in the most popular formats available: Atom, RSS, RDF and XML.

It's based on RSS and RDF/RSS, an XML specification used for distributing news, product announcements, discussion threads, and other assorted content as channels. WinRSS also supports GeoURL data, allowing to discover the physical location of a channel. We are currently working on FOAF support for WinRSS, which will show personal information about any channel's author.

News feeds are available on many internet servers, even in your own language.

Installation

For Windows Vista, 2008 or 7 users, please check additional instructions.

Additional instructions for Windows Vista, 2008 and 7:
Before downloading WinRSS, User Account Control must be deactivated in your system.

1: Click Start and select Control Panel → User Accounts and Family Safety → User Accounts.

2: Click on Change Security Settings.

3: Strip the box Use Account Control (UAC) to help protect your computer and click OK.

Free June 2009 version. Preloaded with English feeds.

Versión gratuita Junio de 2009. Precargado con canales en español.

Benefits

WinRSS uses balloon tooltips to display the news. WinRSS works differently to most feed readers, most of which display information in an email reader style interface. Instead, WinRSS sits quietly in your system tray, periodically checking your favourite sites for updates. When a site is updated, WinRSS displays a summary as a Windows balloon tooltip, which you can click on to open the site.

Clicking the balloon, the associated website will be opened, usually with a complete description.

If you know other programs from Brindys Software, you will be glad to know that WinRSS incorporates the news at the notifications agenda (bulb icon) for an easy access to them.

Used regularly, avoids procastination, as news items will not be visible while you have full screen windows open.

International support

WinRSS currently supports UTF-8 (which provides support for any language), Windows-1251 (cyrilic), Windows-1256 (russian) and 8859-1 encodings. Speaking news support currently works in English, French, Italian, Spanish, Catalan, Galician, Basque, Czech, Polish, and soon also in Russian. The HTML interface works currently in English, Spanish and Catalonian. We are adding more languages to the interface as they become available.